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Chinese surname · rank 479

衡

衡 is read as héng.

Pinyin

héng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 衡

Basic meaning

measure, weigh, judge, consider

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Shang tradition, c. 1600-1046 BCE

Place: Shang court / Yi Yin tradition; Lu state in Shandong for Gongzi Heng layer; Hengshan migration layer; Runan and Yanmen commandery notes.

Origin note

Heng/衡 is a multi-source surname. One old layer comes from Yi Yin, honored as Aheng, with descendants using Heng. A second layer is Ji-surname / Lu, where descendants of Gongzi Heng used his style or name. A third changed-surname layer says descendants of Yuan Shao hid at Hengshan and used the mountain name as surname. Other ethnic or office-title layers are secondary and kept separate.

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